As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel.

Viola had been urged to attend, by telephone, and not knowing the host or the character of the party, she had gone.

It had a gourmet's corner ( instead of a kitchen ), a breakfast room, a luncheon room, a dining room, a sitting room, a room for standing up, a party room, dressing rooms for everybody, even a room for mud.

a `` splash party '' at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour ; ;

The concentration of effective power in Rabat leads not only to party bickering, but to distraction from local activity that might have had many auxiliary benefits in addition to contributing to more meaningful elections.

The newer party campaigned heavily, while the older, more confident party expected the Moroccan merchants and small businessmen to support them as they had done for many years.

The bulk of the preparation had, of course, proceeded under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior, whose officials are barred from party activity and probably generally disinterested in party politics.

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, each party held the presidency for roughly equal periods of time.

For example, under a PR voting system if 30 % of voters support a particular party then roughly 30 % of seats will be won by that party.

The Swiss government has been a coalition of the four major political parties since 1959, each party having a number of seats that roughly reflects its share of electorate and representation in the federal parliament.

In a capability-based model, holding an unforgettable reference or capability to an object provides access to the object ( roughly analogous to how possession of your house key grants you access to your house ); access is conveyed to another party by transmitting such a capability over a secure channel.

In an ACL-based model, a subject's access to an object depends on whether its identity is on a list associated with the object ( roughly analogous to how a bouncer at a private party would check your ID to see if your name is on the guest list ); access is conveyed by editing the list.

With such declared policies as balancing the federal budget, a firm pro-choice stance on abortion, expansion of the war on drugs, ending outsourcing of jobs, opposition to gun control, belief in protectionism on trade, advocating the Environmental Protection Agency and enacting electronic direct democracy via " electronic town halls ," he became a potential candidate and soon polled roughly even with the two major party candidates.

The landing party discovers that the planet is at roughly a late 20th-century level of technology but its society is similar to the Roman Empire.

However, the police had already been investigating the large number of robberies in the Osaka area, and before the party could travel to Seoul, on November 23, 1885, the roughly 130 members were arrested and charged with the illegal possession of guns and bombs, encouraging riots, and some with robbery.

The first roughly 100 members elected Birger Ekstedt to the post of party chair and Lewi Pethrus to the post of vice chair.

100 individuals were registered with minor parties, while roughly 20, 000 did not have any party affiliation.

The 2004 edition of the party also set up a record: in July 2004, QuakeCon announced it was holding the world's first Doom 3 competitions on the event starting at August 12 – 14, roughly a week after the game's release on August 3.

Respect for Orchard grew in the Red Tory wing of the PC Party: roughly one-quarter of the party membership supported him during the 2003 PC leadership campaign, including Joe Clark's wife, Maureen McTeer Orchard ultimately came in third on the third ballot in the 2003 PC convention, behind Nova Scotia Member of Parliament ( MP ) Peter MacKay and Calgary lawyer Jim Prentice.

The Pakistan Muslim League ( N ) ( Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ ن ; acronym: PML -( N ), PMN-N, and PMLN ) is a center-right, conservative political party in Pakistan, being the largest conservative political force and second largest political party, roughly representing 19. 6 % of votes in the Parliament ( both in Senate and National Assembly ), in the latest national parliamentary elections.

Endecott's party of roughly 90 men sailed to Block Island and attacked two apparently abandoned Niantic villages.

However it turned out that the KDU – ČSL's traditional voters identified much more strongly with their original party than the whole, unlike US – DEU's liberal city ones, and using preferential votes on evenly split ballots caused that KDU – ČSL gained 22 MPs to US – DEU's 9 even though both parties were of roughly equal strength.

Over the course of 2006, the NPD processed roughly 2, 000 party applications to push the membership total over 7, 200.

In the presidential election of November 2, 2004, the village had 26 registered voters, roughly half of whom were registered Republican ; the other half were registered " undeclared ", i. e., unaffiliated with a party.

The heads of the Philippist party were imprisoned and roughly handled, and the Torgau Confession of 1574 completed their downfall ( Caspar Peucer, not incidentally Melanchthon's son-in-law, was captured and jailed in the Königstein Fortress for Crypto -

In January 2007, the band stated via its website that roughly 40 tracks were being considered: " it's so fuckin ' party you will die, much more hip hop than you might expect, and while there is still no accurate estimated time of arrival, were sure you're gonna love it when it arrives.

Fernández became the first elected president of the Dominican Republic under his political party, the Dominican Liberation Party (" Partido de la Liberación Dominicana " in Spanish, PLD ), although party founder Juan Bosch was also sworn in as president in 1963 after the first democratic elections held in roughly four decades in the country.

Robert Brett became the first Leader of the official opposition and party lines were roughly drawn based on Conservatives and Liberals.

In 2009 its share of the vote reduced slightly, but it remained the dominant party with 65. 9 % of the votes.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12. 3 % of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 % of the national party vote or three ( directly elected ) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

The new party and the Liberals quickly formed an alliance, which for a while polled as high as 50 % in the opinion polls and appeared capable of winning the next general election.

Although the SDP was seen as being largely a breakaway from the right wing of the Labour Party, an internal party survey found that 60 % of its members had not belonged to a political party before, with 25 % being drawn from Labour, 10 % from the Conservatives and 5 % from the Liberals.

In the 2002 national election, a new party founded by former PLN Congressman and government Minister Ottón Solís captured 26 % of the vote, forcing a runoff election for the first time in the country's history.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

A single issue political party, the Valley Party, contested the 1990 local Greenwich Borough Council elections on a ticket of reopening the stadium, capturing 11 % of the vote, aiding the club's return.

The CPC is the world's largest political party, claiming over 80 million members at the end of 2010 which constitutes about 6. 0 % of the total population of mainland China.

Over 44 % of party members were classified as industrial workers, 12 % were collective farmers.